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• Bringing the Aquabus Back: St. Petersburg Water Taxi Can Be in Demand Aain

  …m. The intervals between the rides were also ineffective – being from 20 to 50 minutes, when most people wouldn’t wait for more than 15 minutes. “I’ve conducted an Internet poll between 500 people who use public transport to go to work. In most of the cases, people saw aquabuses as a leisure-time activity, and only 1% used them regularly”, - says the Master’s …

  23.08.2016

• Evgeny Pidko: Chemistry is a Catalyst for Success

  …be possible to apply it not only to catalysis, but also for the design of functional materials. There are several fundamental problems in this field. Most of the established kinetic and thermodynamic theories describe routinely processes in gaseous and solid states.  However, when chemical reactions take place in liquids, their description and detailed analysis becom…

  18.08.2016

• The Ins and Outs of the Postgraduate Admissions Process at ITMO

  …ientific fields or specialities? The University is very flexible and responds quickly to new trends in scientific fields. In 2015 we started two new disciplines - “Systems, Networks and Telecommunication devices”  and “Physics of Condensed Matter”, and in 2016 due to the growing demand of research in the field of Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics, we opened adm…

  18.08.2016

• Creativity and Traditions of Resistance: Financial Times on the Development of Innovations in Russia

  … – says one academic. “People who are 30 or 40 still look at entrepreneurs as something suspicious”. Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messenger and Vkontakte social network, has also commented on this: “I still believe that Russia can become the “libertarian’s paradise”, as it was in the early 2000’s – though for a really short time. Russia is the synon…

  17.08.2016

• Faster, Higher, Smarter: 5 Main Technological Novelties of 2016 Olympics

  …ration - Summer Olympics' technological partner, the IT infrastructure of the event is sufficient for 4.8 billion viewers who watch the translation via television and the Internet. The data centers provide 22,000 different media with data from the competitions, and all the systems of personnel management and processing of personal data are cloud-hosted. Olympics-2016…

  16.08.2016

• ITMO University Participates in the Erasmus+ Program

  …al techniques and materials, educational models for meeting the demands of the modern educational market. One such task is the development of an open online course in the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is becoming one of the most promising fields of technological development. The concept implies a constant interconnection between different things that is to be cont…

  15.08.2016

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• Perseids 2016: Guide to Watching a Meteor Shower

• Ready to Move: Young Coders Share their Career Experience

  …g on social media. This area correlates with my Bachelor’s and Master’s theses. My graduation paper is devoted to studying of individual and group characteristics of social networks’ users. For instance, analyzing photos from Instagram and Twitter’s texts one can determine demographic characteristics such as gender, age, marital status and so forth. This kind of r…

  10.08.2016

• Joining Big Science: How PCs Help Large-Scale Projects

  …An idea to use personal computers for solving resource-intensive tasks without involving their users came first in the mid 1900-s. One of the first projects was Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) launched in 1996. It attracted thousands people but back then another initiative brought fame to collaborative projects for volunteers. Its’ authors used a popular…

  09.08.2016